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SUMMER CIRCLES SERVICES AT NSUU - 2023
For the upcoming summer season, we are gathering in “Summer Circles.” Circles are designed to be an abbreviated church service, centered around a group discussion on a topic of the presenter’s choice. Below is a listing of the Summer Circles.
JULY 9
Facilitator: Susan Haas
Title: Trusting Change
Description: We all are confronted with changes in our lives and we manage as best we can as we navigate change. Is there an approach that will help to guide us through the process of change?
That is the question posed by UU author Karen Herring in her book, Trusting Change. Perhaps we can look at themes such as “Navigating the Unknown”, “Letting Go”, “Preparing for the Journey”, “Imagining a Way”, “Widening What We Trust”. Let’s explore!
JULY 16 - NO SERVICE
JULY 23
Facilitator: Hal Morse
Title: 60's and 70's Sing-A-Long songs
Description: This service will be a sing-a-long of my favorite artists from the 60's and 70's.
Sing-a-long with Hal to some if his (and your?) favorite folk-rock songs from artists of the 60's and 70's (think Neil Young, Bob Dylan, the Bee Gees, Judy Collins, John Denver and more.) Lyric sheets will be distributed to all.
JULY 30
Facilitator: Iain Goddard
Title: Family Stories Bring History to Life
Description: Don’t let history be just a series of random dates and names to memorize! Genealogy can link your family to historic events, and make history real and personal.
Iain will summarize two family stories of his New England ancestors. Bring your own favorite ancestral stories to share.
AUGUST 6
Facilitator: Marty Langlois
Title: Community Means Strength
Description: The poet John O'Donohue wrote, "Perhaps community is a constellation. Each one of us is a different light in the emerging collective brightness. A constellation of light has greater power of illumination than any single light would have on its own. Together we increase brightness." Come explore the reach of community. And...consider bringing along someone new to the church from one of your own communities.
AUGUST 13
Facilitators: Judy Putnam and Terri Hansen
Title: Hymn Sing
Description: Come and lift your voices and hearts as we sing some of our very favorite hymns. There's an old saying: Those who sing pray twice. We'll sing our hearts out on the old familiar hymns and even take requests for your own favorites.
AUGUST 20
Facilitator: Jeri Kroll
Title: Is Tolerance Acceptable and is Acceptance Enough?
Description: This morning we will look at a Tolerance-Acceptance-Love continuum and its opposite an Defiance-Disapproval-Tolerance continuum. We will consider what this means about our understanding of tolerance and question how we choose to be in relationship with ourselves, with each other and in life situations.
AUGUST 27
Facilitator: Jennifer Revill
Title: The Call to Workship: Unlocking the Spirituality of Work
Description: Does work drain your soul? Is it possible to live out your spirituality in the places you work? Let's share some of our own personal and communal spiritual experiences from the past and present, and explore some practices that may help create a more humane and vital quality of life at work - whatever it is we do.
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